On 03/13/2014 10:35 PM, Galen Seitz wrote: > On 03/13/14 21:51, Dick Steffens wrote: >> On 03/13/2014 05:50 PM, Galen Seitz wrote: >>> On 03/13/14 17:31, Dick Steffens wrote: >>>> On 03/13/2014 05:18 PM, Michael Rasmussen wrote: >>>>> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 01:45:29PM -0700, Dick Steffens wrote: >>>>>> The Buffalo N600 arrived. Its default IP address is 192.168.11.1. Is >>>>>> there any reason I shouldn't change that to 192.168.0.1 for my house >>>>>> setup? >>>>> I advise changing it to something not commonly used by HW manufactures. >>>>> perhaps 192.168.42.1 or 10.42.42.1 or choose your own favorite numbers >>>>> that fit address space requirements. >> >> <snip> >> >>>> Hadn't thought of it that way. Good plan. I'll give it some thought >>>> tonight and come up with an unlikely choice. >>> Before you dive into configuring your router, shouldn't we be installing >>> OpenWrt at the clinic? >> >> What's the advantage of OpenWrt or Gargoyle over DD-WRT? > > Personal Telco (aka Russell) uses OpenWrt. He does his own builds, and > is on the developer list(s). I.e. we have an expert in our midst. > > Much less of an endorsement is that I am relatively familiar with LuCI, > the web front end that comes standard with OpenWrt. I installed an N600 > running OpenWrt at our office last summer. I also have OpenWrt running > on the WRT54GL in three locations, including here at home. > > The bottom line is that if you use OpenWrt, you'll have someone local to > ask questions should the need arise. > > > galen >
With DD-Wrt there is some F/OSS licensing issues and historically they have been accused of GPL violations in the past. I am not entirely convinced that they have fixed those issues. Not that I begrudge them to make a buck, but DD-Wrt has two versions: free for non-commercial use and paid for commercial use. The "free" version is missing some functionality. IIRC, OpenWRT is fully F/OSS - no strings attached. Of late Openwrt has been my preference and its good to hear we have a guru amongst us. I'm running Gargoyle 1.6 on a Netgear WNDR3700v1 as I type (OpenWrt ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT 12.09). The WNDR3700 stock firmware was oenwrrt based but Netgear hasn't updated it in ages. Yay, go free market! I mentioned Gargoyle simply to point out a nice alternative to Luci web front end. That's pretty much all Gargoyle is: a nice simple to use front end web interface on OpenWRT without all the bells and whistles a home user might not need. It includes some nice traffic and band width monitoring. Otherwise it's straight up OpenWRT core with advanced features accessible via ssh. -Ed _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
